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Eligibility Criteria

Bachelor's degree, or equiv. International Education

Credit Hours

30 Hours

Course Duration

6 Months (Self-Paced) Program

Courses Offered

5

Courses Offered In GRADUATE DIPLOMA

  • Courses Name

  • Courses Description

  • Credit Hours

  • Introduction to Broadcast Journalism

  • This course addresses the basic rules and techniques common to broadcast writing with a depth of coverage unmatched by its competitors. Broadcast Journalism course offers a wide variety of interesting, stimulating and challenging studies in the fields of radio broadcasting, television and video production, film, and broadcast journalism.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Journalism

  • This course provides Who, What, When, Where, Why and How of Journalism. It’s a comprehensive introduction to the field, covering how news is produced and delivered, how news organizations work, and how audiences react and interact with news media. It helps you understand this exciting and important field.

  • 6 Credits

  • News Writing

  • This course approaches writing as a process, using a pedagogy that has proven effective. In each topic, course addresses the roles of journalists at several levels of abstraction, beginning with their responsibilities to audiences in democratic society, and continuing with ethical decision-making in fulfilling those responsibilities.

  • 6 Credits

  • Fundamentals of Online Journalism

  • This course takes a nuts-and-bolts approach to news writing for radio, television and the Internet. It covers the basics of writing for all three electronic media-television, radio and Internet-from terminology and how stories should look on printed-pages. This course will also show you how to gather news, and conducting interviews.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Copyediting

  • This course provides you with many resources actively learn about copyediting, headline writing, decision-making, and relationships with writers, graphic presentations, photo editing and layout and design. It also contains a separate topic on legal principles that an editor needs to understand.

  • 6 Credits
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Introduction to Broadcast Journalism

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The copywriting marketplace.
    Copywriting and the communication process.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Tools of our trade.
    Rational and emotional attractions.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Making sense of our audience.
    Cdvp factors.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Key elements of radio writing.
    Radio commercials.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Additional audio endeavors.
    Key elements of television writing.
    The business of television commercials.
    Additional video endeavors.
    Public service assignments.

Introduction to Journalism

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    News and society.
    Culture of journalism.
    Becoming a journalist.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Newspapers.
    Magazines.
    Television and radio.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    News web sites.
    Reporters.
    Reporting.
    Writing news and features.
    Style.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Editors.
    Editing and headline writing.
    Visual journalists.
    Graphics journalism.
    Photojournalism.
    Publication design.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Broadcasters.
    Writing for broadcast.
    Beginnings of journalism.
    Journalism comes of age.
    New realities, new journalism.
     20th century and beyond.
    Law and the journalist.
    Ethical practices.
    Present and future.

News writing

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Reporters, communities and working in a converged world
    Using tools with skill
    What is news?
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Turning information into news
    Ledes
    How to write good: writing for print
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Story forms and organizing stories
    Writing for broadcast
    Writing for the web
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Using quotes
    Sources
    Facts and allegations
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Interviewing
    Speeches
    Computer-assisted reporting
    Police and emergency services
    Covering local government meetings
    News conferences
    Courts, trials, indictments, lawsuits
    Working from background and other levels of attribution

Fundamentals of Online Journalism

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Defining and diffusing news.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Broadcast news writing style.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Page format for radio news.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Page format for television news.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Online news.
    Sources.
    Organizing, interviews, and leads.
    Beyond the basics.
    Ethics and the law.

Introduction to Copyediting

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The job of the editor.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Accuracy, clarity and brevity.
    The complete editor.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Headlines and summaries.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Pictures.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Infographics.
    Design and layout.
    The editor and the law.